diff --git a/dev-python/ipywidgets/metadata.xml b/dev-python/ipywidgets/metadata.xml
index df7da6125bfa3..027ab1d7677e4 100644
--- a/dev-python/ipywidgets/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/ipywidgets/metadata.xml
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
     <email>sci@gentoo.org</email>
     <name>Gentoo Science Project</name>
   </maintainer>
+  <maintainer type="project">
+    <email>python@gentoo.org</email>
+    <name>Python</name>
+  </maintainer>
   <longdescription>
     Interactive HTML widgets for Jupyter notebooks and the IPython kernel.
   </longdescription>